Observation of parental functioning at mealtime using a sibling design

Food-related parenting practices and styles in households with sibling children: A scoping review

“…There was some degree of sibling resemblance associated with maternal use of authoritarian (r = 0.58) and permissive (r = 0.75) feeding styles (Moens et al, 2013). Mothers in the sample used a more authoritarian feeding style for the sibling who was younger, exhibited a less restrained eating style (defined as a lower tendency to deliberately restrict food intake to lose or maintain body weight), and ate more during the mealtime (Moens et al, 2013).…”

“…In several study designs, the siblings recruited were concordant on traits such as sex (Bosk, 1988;Roemmich et al, 2010;Tripicchio et al, 2014;Ufholz et al, 2020) and age (twins or retrospective data collection for one sibling) (Damen et al, 2020;Harris et al, 2016;Selzam et al, 2018;Tripicchio et al, 2014). In other designs, researchers intentionally recruited siblings discordant on traits such as weight status (Bosk, 1988;Roemmich et al, 2010;Saelens, Ernst, & Epstein, 2000;Ufholz et al, 2020) or during analysis, identified subsamples of siblings discordant on traits such as sex (Berge, Meyer, et al, 2016), weight status (Berge, Meyer, et al, 2016;Berge, Tate, et al, 2016;Moens, Braet, & Vandewalle, 2013), and eating behaviours (Harris et al, 2016). Few studies reported on methodologies (n = 1) and theoretical frameworks (n = 4) used.…”

“…In a study of 4-to 12-year-old siblings (n = 36 pairs), Moens et al (2013) tested the degree of sibling resemblance on maternal feeding styles (using intraclass correlation coefficients) and examined how differences between siblings were correlated with differences in their age, weight status, and eating behaviours. Eating behaviours included tendencies to exhibit emotional, external, and restrained eating, which were measured based on maternal reports using the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) (van Strien & Oosterveld, 2008).…”

“…Eating behaviours included tendencies to exhibit emotional, external, and restrained eating, which were measured based on maternal reports using the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) (van Strien & Oosterveld, 2008). In addition, differences in feeding styles were examined in relation to differences in the amount consumed by siblings during a single laboratory mealtime (Moens et al, 2013).…”

Family food talk, child eating behavior, and maternal feeding practices

“…Parents are critical in efforts to prevent obesity (Faith, Scanlon, Birch, Francis, & Sherry, 2004) from early in development (Campbell et al, 2013). Much of what we know about maternal feeding practices comes from self-reported feeding behaviors (Birch et al., 2001; Rodgers et al, 2013) or from observational studies of behavioral interactions during mealtimes (Czaja, Hartmann, Rief, & Hilbert, 2011; Hilbert, Tuschen-Caffier, & Czaja, 2010; Kong et al, 2013; Moens, Braet, & Vandewalle, 2013). Few studies have examined how parents and children talk about food in naturalistic contexts, which may be important in shaping child eating behavior (Wiggins, 2004).…”